CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Zsombor, Cseres-Gergely |
|---|---|
| Title | Essays on labour market behaviour at the beginning and end of the active life-cycle |
| Summary | This thesis is focussed on the behaviour of the old and the young when exiting and enter- ing the labour market. The self-contained chapters are looking at the correlation of transition into inactivity and pensioner state after the transition in Hungary, the effect of financial in- centives on retirement behaviour, the role of extraversion in higher education participation and the possibility to infer the correlation of old and young employment using limited data. All chapters are based on the empirical analysis of data, chapters 2-4 using microeconomet- ric methods. The second chapter shows various pieces of evidence that the availability of pension in the post-transition Hungary did contribute to the very low employment levels ob- servable in the country, and the 1997 pensions reform was mitigating this effect. The third chapter separates the effect of financial incentives from the availability of pension and shows that despite being significant, the former is weaker than the latter. Estimates of the fourth chapter show that extraversion has a significant effect on higher education participation and that the gender difference in this role is explained by the gender differences in the benefit, rather than the cost of this choice. The fifth chapter uses simple theoretical findings and em- pirical estimates to show the effect of using limited data on the ability to infer the connection between old and young employment. |
| Supervisor | Kézdi, Gábor |
| Department | Economics PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/cseres-gergelyz.pdf |
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